Welcome to the Ontario Justice Education Network
Key areas
TEACHER RESOURCES
Our resources are legally accurate, curriculum-linked, and tested with students.
The OBA/OJEN Competitive Mock Trials for High School Students
Join your local mock trial tournament.
TRAINING
Continuing Professional Development, facilitator training, and video resources.
ABOUT OJEN
Find out more about who we are and what we do.
JUSTICE EDUCATION PROGRAMS
We run programs in community settings and with special audiences.
BOOK A COURTHOUSE VISIT
Bring your class or youth group to visit a courthouse and watch court.
BOOK A GUEST SPEAKER
We can connect you with a legal expert who can talk to your audience.
Get Involved
Volunteer, donate, or work with us.
OJEN NEWS
Webinar – Not a Puppet on a String: Prosecuting a Former Child Soldier for War Crimes
Webinar Date: March 17, 2021 Time: 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. As a young child, Dominic Ongwen was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel militia operating in Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His parents were killed and he was forced to serve as […]
Call for applications: OJEN Justice Education Fellowships 2021-2022
OJEN is now accepting applications from Ontario law students for seven (7) Justice Education Fellowship positions in 2021-2022. If you are a student at an eligible law school and you have a passion for public legal education and community outreach, we encourage you to apply. The eligible law schools are: Queen’s University, Faculty of Law […]
FROM THE OJEN BLOG
Charter Challenge – What will French language students gain by participating in this program?
By Kevine Ishimwe M and John Abdelsayed Kevine and John are members of OJEN’s Francophone Youth Leadership Team The Ontario Justice Education Network (OJEN) is a charitable, not-for-profit, non-governmental organization with a province-wide mandate. OJEN is developing a Francophone mock appeal program. This program will give French-speaking students in Ontario an opportunity to gain a […]
Announcing 2020 Fall Charter Challenge Semi-Finalists
OJEN is happy to announce the finalists for the Fall 2020 Charter Challenge! Please join us in congratulating: The Appellant: Feldman and Gan Legal Counsel from Bloor Collegiate Institute in Toronto. and The Respondent: Law Society of Dufferin Grove, also from Bloor Collegiate Institute! OJEN and our reviewers from Osgoode Hall Law School and the […]